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Plus everyone in the replies directing this toward women. I am a slut for gear, there is nothing wrong with that. To me the name was diluting the term and removing the emotional context these individuals think it implies. Therefore the majority of customers do not care. If it is that bad, it will die, but that is not happening. Stop using the service and move on just like they say with twitter or facebook. This shows that this a directive by special interests for the case of thought policing. The issue I have is, if it was that offensive people would not join and use the forum. At one point when we have AI the term “Gear” could become offensive or maybe someone starts using it for other purposes and that can be offensive. The point here is offense can be had by anyone. I can tell by the replies Vincent and JJ are not trying to voice their opinion but instead direct the narrative on here. There are no loses, nothing is lost, you can still fart to yourself while surfing the site in your underpants, but a very small corner of the internet would be brighter and in these dark days that is worth fighting for. It’s a small thing, a tiny thing that would enable broader access to a great resource. But if the name changed it would reflect the idea that the forum isn’t just filled with childish idiots and might be a safe place to go for people who are regularly confronted by sexism in our industry. No one wants to stop you taking a dump on your own carpet. Many people are not bothered as that’s not been their experience and they are not in a position where they have to give the URL out in education or access the site at work. However, the name is embarrassing and it’s also a word that’s frequently used as a term of abuse. The name discourages people from using what is a useful source of information that puts itself out there as a business and a service to the community. I don’t think any laws are being broken and no one is offended. The petition was started only a week ago by “Cam Ran” and has garnered 4,952 signatures (at the time of writing). It took a petition of forum members’ peers to make them consider the possibility that they might be on the wrong side of this issue and that in itself is a perfect picture of the institutional sexism inherent in these sorts of forums. Instead, ranks were closed and problems dismissed as political correctness “gone mad”. Women spoke out at the time about the exact same issues Julian highlighted in his video but nothing happened. Music Technology is one area that desperately needs to take a long hard look at itself for the gender imbalance and why while there’s plenty of women working in the industry a far smaller percentage engage in the online communities such as Gearslutz. What really gets my goat is that we had this conversation a couple of years ago in the momentum of the #MeToo movement that was tackling sexism in many arenas. He’s not an idiot or blind to the issues and seems like a really nice chap and of course no one believes or is suggesting that he meant any harm or disrespect to anyone. In a video posted on the Gearslutz forum Julian explains why they feel it’s time to change the name and highlights exactly what the problems have always been with it.

The name wasn’t a great idea then and it still isn’t now. The conversation never really included women because it wasn’t about women, it was just good old lad-culture harmless fun. They were simpler times when educators and places of work didn’t mind accessing using web addresses with sexual slurs in them. It’s a welcome change of attitude from what he said just the other day when he had no intention of changing the name and explained that it’s all good innocent fun based on playing with the idea of being a slave to the acquisition of gear and back in 2003 no one batted an eyelid, or at least no one that they cared about. We recognise and agree that the word-play pun in the name has gotten old and it is now time to move forwards. After mounting pressure spearheaded by an online petition with nearly 5,000 signatures Julian Standen posted on his jauntily named forum:

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